"Elke Jeinsen admits she is ""a little bit famous"" in Hanover, Germany. Which is like saying a BMW is fairly good on the autobahn. In both cases, of course, the secret is high performance. Through hard work and perseve?"

"""Ja,"" says miss October. ""I used to say, I am shy for this. I am a girl who wears a T-shirt on the beach!"" Yet the blonde beauty from tiny Algermissen, a hamlet in norther Germany, has never been timid in any way abo?"

World travelers may recognize this fabulously beautiful woman. Her name is Giuliana Marino, and she is German Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2006. Hef met her in Munich on a recent trip and found her charm irresi?

At 17, Anna-Marie left her milkmaid duties bechind in Ysbrechtum, Holland to become a model working in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany. A lover of all things American, Anna-Marie settled in California and caught t?

She was just 18 when we made her acquaintance and already Miss October 1987 Brandi Brandt was brimming with the energy, passion and charm of someone poised to take on the world. To be sure, the Filipino-German-Irish-?

Fall in Chicago: Jolanda Egger, Swiss-born model, aspiring actress and erstwhile lover and manager of Christian Anders (the German equivalent of Andy Gibb), stands at the corner of Fullerton Avenue and Clark Street.?

"Munich, Germany couldn't hope for a better walking billboard than 25-year-old Regina Deutinger. ""I was born and raised here, and I live right downtown,"" she says. ""As a child, I always looked forward to going to Okto?"

You will notice that the sled dogs at left seem to be smiling. We don't blame them. The lady holding the reins is Monique St. Pierre, a 25-year-old German-born model who, for the time being, is the great good fortune?